True Crime

"A dauntless and harrowing indictment of patriarchal violence." --Publishers Weekly In Everything I Never Wanted to Know, Christine Hume confronts the stigma and vulnerability of women's bodies in the US. She explores bodily autonomy and sexual assault alongside the National Sex Offender Registry in...

Ann Rule captures the fascinating story of a spoiled Southern charmer with a hidden evil side. Unbeknownst to her family and friends, Pat Taylor was a sociopath, dedicated to getting what she wants in life...no matter the consequence. Everything She Ever Wanted chronicles Taylor's...

WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER? OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER? For their wedding portrait, petite Pat Taylor and handsome Tom Allanson posed as Rhett and Scarlett. Both came from fine Southern families, and dreamed of the Tara-like plantation where they would grow roses, raise...

Author: Ona GritzPublisher: Apprentice HousePublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53dISBN: 9781627205085

In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, along with her husband and infant son. Ill equipped for the horror of that violence and the enormity of her loss, Angie's sister Ona, a college sophomore, felt numb. She also...

**New Edition - Updated With New Postscript** In this astonishing New York Times bestseller, veteran LAPD Detectives Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter-who headed the investigation of the Nicole Brown/Ronald Goldman double murder-fully chronicle the police case that brought O.J. Simpson to trial. Drawing from...

Evidence Ignored presents an unfiltered account of the events that led to the tragedy at Columbine High School. Despite the mountain of police reports, journal writings, video and audio transcripts that have been released, the general public knows only what has been presented to...

Evidence of Innocence attests to the reality that the more serious the charge, the harder it is to prove innocence - even with strong evidence that the accused was nowhere near the scene of the crime when it occurred.Among other disservices, Edward Clark's court...

The "fascinating" true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the...

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genreTrue crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what...

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genreTrue crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what...

The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia. On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle...

Did Mike accidentally drown in a Florida lake? Or was his disappearance the result of a sinister plot to kill him?The crisp, predawn hours of December 16, 2000, began much as they had many Saturdays for avid duck hunter Mike Williams--on Lake Seminole, where...

Did Mike accidentally drown in a Florida lake?Or was his disappearance the result of a sinister plot to kill him?The crisp, predawn hours of December 16, 2000, began much as they had many Saturdays for avid duck hunter Mike Williams-on Lake Seminole, where he'd...

On a peaceful August morning in 1985, FBI agents led a raid on a farm outside Rub, Nebraska. The FBI had been watching the farm for weeks. Through their surveillance and intelligence gathering, they learned that the farm was occupied by a small group...

The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest, and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders...

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it's sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn't do. But fear not, the truth of...

The FBI estimate that there are between 25 and 50 serial killers at large in the USA at any given time. But the truth is few people kill. We occasionally say we could kill someone, but that is usually hyperbole. Most of us can...

As seen on The Dr. Oz Show, Access Hollywood, and Fox & Friends Experience some of the most intense hostage, serial homicide, mass casualty, stalking, and violent "true-believer" cases encountered by an expert during his thirty-year police and forensic psychology career. Some of the...

In 1992 Italy was convulsed by two brazen Mafia assassinations of high-ranking officials. The latest "excellent cadavers" were Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the Sicilian magistrates who had been the Cosa Nostra's most implacable enemies. Yet in the aftermath of the murders, hundreds of...